The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-17
THAT STRANGER IN THE SKY.
It Makes Row Between Zephaniah
Cinders and Lam entation Jackson.


From the Neto York Herald
Lucinda Johnsons german broke up in a
row. And, would you believe! it was all
because of silver light that had doomed
ND recently in the western skies.
Yes, it does seem ridiculous; but that
same GIinting, twinkling stranger is what
brought Miss Lucinda and a score of her
guests to tho Harlem Police Court yes
terday.
This is the way it came about Miss John
son has long been considered the leader in
NIL That is gay and cultured in the uptown
colored cotcrie. Buxem, brash, and bilious
in complexion rather than black, she was
eminently fitted to handle the social reins
in her somewhat fast set.
1t was but natural that she should wish
TO celebrate the coming out of her sister.
Miss Larceny Johnson in a manner that
would accord with her own brilliant posi-
tion in society And this was partly the
purpose of the cotillion at the family resi-
dencc on Friday evening. In order that the
affair might be wanting in no detail of
unique attractivenesS the dancing was to be
followed by an experience meeting and a
song service instead of the usual vulgar sup
per that obtains on such occasions.
That the experience meeting and song
service did not come off is no fault of Miss
luclQudS Liz DldIBb Will yOu SDlGI-
did spark, set like an opal in field of sap
phire sky.
Judge for yourself if 'tisn't so.
Everything went off delightfully."- in the
early part of the EVENING" trifie stiff and
starchy, perhaps, but elegant and courtly
Later tripping feet plunged through the ice
of formality, and things promised well for
the experience meeting and song service
that were to conclude the gayeties.
IA No., hoe 81, &C., q H.
according to the story told the Judge yes
terday, that the trouble began. The room,
it seems, had become somewhat heated. and
Lamentation Jackson approaching the de-
butante of the evening said:
NTH Lahsny, would'n' you like to TEX a
few laps aroun' de pizassa"
"We-n, Mithter Jackthon," came the
drawing reply of the child of midnight
eyes, 81 dunno ez ken prezackley thay tibet
de pizassa,n
And all the trouble came from that
promenade on the piazza. Just a slight
variation, you see, of the Eve episode.
UNDER AN UNLUCKY STAR.
The couple walked up and down the roof
of the small shed where Obadiah Dempsey,
whose house adioins the johnson abode,
keeps his goats, but which serves nicely as
a porch for the neighborlng residence.
Stopping in the midst of a low-toned dis
cusSion of the merits of peppermint as a
handkerchief perfume, Miss Larceny, turn
ing to her asSiduous escort, asked:
bah &c way, Mithter jackson, ken you
form me wat am dat bright thpeck, kama
white and kama yaller, over yonner in de
hebbenl You thee it right ober Go-to-meetin'
Bixby's places"
Mr.. jackson shaded his eyes knowingly
for a moment, and then confessed that he
failed to see the object of Miss Johnson's
wonder.
''Whar am your eyes, Mithter Jackthon~
returned the young lady. ''Doan you thee
it a-wigglin an a-wagglin fun way backl'
"Well, NTH La'sny, dem debblish black
eyes o. yourn hez kama blanded me fur de
instan', but nah collect dat | was readn'
dat de great 'scoverer, Mithter Edition., hez
done thent balloon up bout sebben mile
wild lectic light on de inside. OATS what
dat am-Mithter Ed'thon's Hectic light"
and Jackson stuck one hand behind his
coat tails, beat one knee and waited for the
lady's comment on his cleverness
''Thakes alive, Mithter Jackthon, whar
you git all dat larnin? Your as snappy as
raap pe'simmon."
THROWING THE APPLE OF DISCoRD.
While the couple were engaged in view
ing the mystic glinmer in the west, Miss
Appleblossom Boomer came along, leaning
on the arm of Zephaniah Cinders.
You a-wishin' by de ebenin' star, peo-
pls?" pleasantly inquired Cinders.
Dat amt no ebenin star, Mithter Gin
ders,n returned Miss johnson tartly-she
once charged the same gentleman with hav-
ing attempted to scandaliZe her character
''dat am Ed'thon's Hectic light"
''WhO tell you dat foolishness? Dat amt
no Hectic light Dat am Venus"
'Wath data" spoke up jackson threaten
ingly.
I" Alb thay," reiterated Cinders in tone
that meant fight, ''ah thay dat am Venus. "
Thee hyar, Mithter Cinders," broke in
Miss Johnson, with mounting color, dat
am not de langwidge to use befoah ladies,
an you is talin' vantage o de company to
speak trash :"
Cinders protested that his language GER
tainly intended no disrespect to his compan-
ions. He said that he had heard party of
gentlemen in his barber shop discussing the
presence of the stranger in the skies and
that he had learned his facts from their CON
v"rsation. AN ah tell you" he concluded
al!grily, dat it am Venus"
'Ah tell you again. cried Miss johnson;
"doan you stan dere and speak de name OBJ
such pusson as dat All know her; alb
seen her picture-de natthy, good for muffin
hussy wat goes aroun' wild no cloeS on. You
ought to be shame, you common, onclean
niggah, to hab de 'dacity to breave de name
Of such wuffiess trash. All guess, howsom-
ever, dat your nav walnut much better"
THE CRISIS REACHED.
It was that last remark probably that
precipitated the climax. jackson and Gin
deIs did, indeed, exchange few compi-
ments, in which allusion was made to the
TACT that any man could wear a dress suit at
a german if he shaved white trash for two
weeks to raise enough money to pay for its
loan, to which Cinders replied that his
friend jackson ought to be aware that white
overalls and celuloid dickies are no longer
an reggie evening dress.
Accounts differ as to subsequent proceed
lngs. When the policemen, who were sum
moned, arrived on the scene they found a
state Of affairs that called for ambulance
wagons and the fire patrol Miss Lucinda
johnson Insisted on preferring a charge of
mayhem against Cinders at once. She con-
fesSed she didn't know what it meant, but
she was certain that Cinders had done it.
Dat polluting coon,n she explained amid
her tears to the Sergeant at the station, he
goes aroun' abreallin all de ten command
ants an aworryin' dat der amt no more of
EN- dat he can sac'lege an scarify.n
But the judge in the Harlem Court heard
with impartial care both sides OF the story
he looked with unbiased eye on the score or
more of Lucinda Johnson's guests who were
brought before HIM on the charge of disor-
derly conduct; he noted their dishevelled
hhery their torn clothes, their ,downcast,7